DAR avers farmers get to own disputed land
The 159 farmers occupying a land area used by banana exporter Lapanday Foods Corporation are its rightful owners.
Progressive labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno in Southern Mindanao Region holds a protest rally Thursday at the Department of Labor and Employment region XI office to reiterate their call to end the contractualization of workers. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
More than 7,000 workers regularized but…
The labor department 63 establishments in Davao region have regularized 7,728 workers.
Dr. Abdullah B. Dumama Jr., assistant health secretary for Mindanao Cluster, explains that counseling services and information and dissemination campaigns will be conducted before the Department of Health distributes free condoms for junior and senior high school students. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
To combat AIDS, health dept. to accelerate condom distribution in schools
To stem the tide of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and the rising number of teenage pregnancy cases in the city, the Department of Health announced Monday that it would fast-track next year the distribution of condoms in public schools.
Released political detainee yearn for other prisoners to be freed too
Freedom for all political prisoners across the country.
P2,500 chalk allowance for public school teachers lauded
Public school teachers here lauded the additional increase of chalk allowance after the bicameral conference committee approved raising it to P2,500.